Re: Best release for x86_64 Linux?

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 10:38:10AM +0200, Ger Hobbelt wrote:
 
> my current advise is to use the GerH build for its binaries and use
> the mail*.crm scripts from the original.
> 
> Why? because the GerH builds have been tested on 64-bit and contain
> fixes which are not in the mainline, while my mail*.crm scripts are
> currently in a state of flux as I only started using those (recall
> that I do _not_ use crm114 for mail filtering but for completely
> different purposes).
> GerH CSS files are not binary compatible with the CSS files accepted
> by 64-bit mainline crm114, but then the future mainline crm114 will
> probably not accept its own CSS files when it has been 'fixed' for
> 64-bit entirely unless Bill does something very smart.
> 

Is your version a fork, or is it more of a development tree, changes in which
will be proposed for inclusion in the mainline?

I think I need to retrain at some point, and it would obviously be easiest to
do that once the database format issue on 64-bit architectures (specifically,
x86_64) has been settled.
> The latter means you should read up on the documentation about
> recreating and learning bulk mail using mailreaver + mailtrainer
> anyway, so you are able to recreate your CSS files any time in the
> future from the original material: your emails. Which is sound
> 'backup/recovery' advise for _any_ system.
> 

This is indeed good advice.
> 
> If you wish/need a more detailed and/or point-for-point evaluation, I
> can provide that upon request.

I might just wait a little to see what happens regarding database formats and
bug fixing for 64-bit platforms.

At the moment, using OSBF, I am getting acceptable, though not excellent,
classification accuracy, but I am sure this could be improved, and it will be
interesting to retrain from the beginning with a 64-bit bug-fixed version.


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